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Harvest updates from around the Corn Belt
Harvest is wrapping up around much of the Corn Belt – but some are still struggling to finish.
Zach Hunnicutt farms in central Nebraska. “We’re still about six days out from being done with harvest,” he says. “We got an inch of rain on Monday or Tuesday that’s going to keep us out for a little bit. We were pretty well saturated anyway and it’s been getting cold and wet and it’s not going to dry out any time soon.”
Chester, South Dakota’s Keith Alverson says they were able to finish up before the latest round of snow fell. “I think a lot of the guys in the area are kind of at the edge,” he says. “They’re either finishing up or getting close to finishing up. We had between 4 and 6 inches of snow on Tuesday. Lately it seems like I’m talking about snow every week.”
Allen Ett of Ashville, OH says they finally cut their double crop beans yesterday. “A lot of the guys around us are finishing up also,” he says. “You go east of us about 15-20 miles to a town called Lancaster and there’s still a good lot of crops left out there. I’m not sure why.”
Adam Casner farms around Carrolton, Missouri and says they still have a long ways to go. “We had a little over an inch of rain the first part of this week,” he says. “Everything is kind of at a standstill around here. There’s water standing everywhere. There’s not a lot going on and we’re scratching our heads trying to figure out when we’re going to finish this harvest.”
Central Illinois’ Judi Graff says even with some weather delays – they’ve been able to get in the field. “After last week’s hangout we had 3 inches of rain,” she says. “But, we were able to get into the field about two days later and we finished up harvest on Monday at 1:17pm.”
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